What’s Your Favorite Poem?

In honor of National Poetry Month, the Sheridan Libraries will create a series of “pocket poems”: poems on pocket-sized pieces of paper, available throughout Eisenhower Library for you to pick up. We hope they will encourage you to take a poetry break at this busy time of year—a poem to read, think about and share with your friends and colleagues.

Please tell us the title, author and (preferably) full text of your favorite poem on this form—or e-mail the information. The deadline for submissions is midnight on Monday, April 12. From your submissions, we’ll select a few dozen that fit our parameters. Each poem has to be short enough to fit on a pocket-sized piece of paper (or excerpt-able). And we can only reproduce poems old enough to be in the public domain—that means, published before 1923.

Not sure what to suggest? Use our online poetry resources to help you find poems.